A note of caution. If you like weeds in your fall containers, cut them, and place them up side down in a large garbage bag, right in the field. We shook the daylights out of these thistle stems-to remove all of the seeds-before we placed them in a pot. Teasel is beautiful-but there’s no sense to passing trouble around.

center pieces with black eucalyptus

a Halloween motif

fall plantings in wood crates

lavender and purple

dry hydrangeas

orange eucalyptus

ornamental cabbage and kale

black millet

pumpkins, gourds and vegetables

fall color

centerpieces

wicker pot

red lettucedry millet and hydrangeas. We have a few more weeks of planting to go. Whether you shop your local farmer’s market, a garden center, your own yard, or a field down the road, there are great fall container arrangements out there waiting to be made.

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Deborah Silver is a landscape and garden designer whose firm, Deborah Silver and Co Inc, opened its doors in 1986. She opened Detroit Garden Works, a retail store devoted to fine and unusual garden ornament and specialty plants, in 1996. In 2004, she opened the Branch studio, a subsidiary of the landscape company which designs and manufactures garden ornament in a variety of media. Though her formal education is in English literature and biology, she worked as a fine artist in watercolor and pastel from 1972-1983. A job in a nursery, to help support herself as an artist in the early 80’s evolved into a career in landscape and garden design. Her landscape design and installation projects combine a thorough knowledge of horticulture with an artist’s eye for design. Her three companies provide a wide range of products and services to the serious gardener. She has been writing this journal style blog since April of 2009.